Originally Posted by
VickersVicount
Which sometimes is not always a great thing... Airtours used to have every plane under the sun and look what happened to them...
Stick to 738's.
Agreed. But the B733s and the B757s are on the way out (eventually). B738s are no longer being produced and the second hand market has dried up due to the grounding of the B738MAX. In any case the recent acquisition of DRTI from Jet Airways was, according to rumour, very expensive to bring up to standard. Any second hand B738s available at the moment probably have serious defects or have had poor maintenance. So to take advantage of the present situation, there are very few options.
On the other hand the business opportunities offered by the demise of TCX won't be around for ever and in the holiday business it is now or never. Either the customer is served with what he wants now or he goes elsewhere.
As JET2 have already had a few seasons with the Airbus330, they could even contemplate taking on their own A330s. They have the golden opportunity of adding A321s with TREs and experienced crew plus maintenance staff and engineers. All available immediately to expand their coming winter and next summer programmes to meet the extra demand.
Yes, it would be better to be all Boeing but there's nothing on offer immediately from Boeing.